Easy Tissue Paper Pumpkin Favours

There are two things my kids LOVE. 1. Candy, and 2. Presents! And these tissue paper pumpkin favours fall beautifully into both of those categories! Wrap up your favourite Halloween treats, and then open up the pumpkins like presents to get to the candy inside. Wouldn’t these make adorable favours at a Halloween party? And I’m so tempted to make a bunch of them to send to school as treats on Halloween! As for the ones I made, I gave them to my girls as a special after-dinner treat last night.

Am I a terrible mother for bribing my kids with candy in order to get them to eat their dinners? I feel guilty and a little bit embarrassed for admitting it, but almost every day I use the parenting cliche “If you’re hungry enough to eat candy, then you’re hungry enough to finish your dinner!” Without it, my girls would barely eat anything! So when I pulled these out last night, my girls got SO excited that they immediately gobbled up everything on their plates! (Score for me!) They were like a little present, sitting on the table, silently calling “eat-your-dinner-so-you-can-open-me-up!”

Cut 3 different sizes of tissue–if you want less candy inside–so do 5″, 7 ” and the 9 inch. Can dole out the little ones , one at a time after eating their protein and then another after veggies, etc. but can’t open them until after plate almost clean or have eaten some “no Thank You” helpings

I would like to use this idea in a Round Up I’m doing for Thanksgiving for teens. Would you be okay with me sharing one photo? I would be sure to link back to your blog for the instructions and details 🙂

I made these last year for 1 of my gdaughters halloween parties. Didn’t look as cute as these but kindergarteners didn’t care. My troubles was the tape. I used floral and it just didn’t work out as well.

I almost couldn’t get enough of these little gems…until I made 120 for class parties a few weeks ago. Eighty were for an awesome game of matches, the other 40 were favors for my other two kids’ classes. Needless to say, EVERYONE loved them! You’re welcome to come see what we did (I used different supplies) and the kids playing the matches wanted to play again at the winter party…guess I’ll be making snowball favors!

[…] Tissue Paper Pumpkins If you don’t have the time to bake but still want to do something different, then these little pumpkin parcels are super easy and really cute! Fill them with lots of mini sweets and you have a lovely present for your little trick or treaters. […]